New website launched

In order to coordinate the efforts of the Companions over the whole country, we now have a signle unified website at http://www.orderofmalta.org.uk/companions/

All our news and forthcoming events will now be posted there.

Glasgow Soup Run Sunday 24th February 2013

The Glasgow Soup Run will begin this Sunday at 7pm on the South Side of George Square. We hope to add an Edinburgh one on Tuesday nights before long.

 

Events for 2013

2013 EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY

SATURDAY 16th MARCH

Tenth Anniversary Knights’ Ball,

in aid of the Grand Magistry’s Global Fund for Forgotten People www.forgottenpeople.org

at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh

www.knightsball.co.uk

SATURDAY 4th MAY
Whitekirk and Haddington Pilgrimage.

This is a walk between the medieval pilgrimage centres of Whitekirk and Haddington, arranged by the Church of Scotland parish ministers. We plan to join in on a private basis, to see whether we might establish a similar event in the Order’s name in 2014. If you plan to attend or would like to know more, please contact the Delegation Hospitaller: philip.scrope@smithsgore.co.uk


SUNDAY 16th JUNE
Delegation Day of Recollection,

Murthly Castle, Dunkeld, Perthshire, by kind permission of our confrere Thomas Steuart Fothringham; start 1130hrs; bring own picnic lunch; donation of £15.00 per person requested. If you plan to attend or would like to know more, please contact the Delegation Hospitaller: philip.scrope @smithsgore.co.uk

SATURDAY 19th OCTOBER


Annual Mass in the Extraordinary (Tridentine) Form at Torphichen Preceptory, Linlithgow, West Lothian, by invitation of Una Voce Scotland.


THURSDAY 7th NOVEMBER
Delegation Annual Requiem Mass,

St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh.

Nairobi 2013

An eighth group of Companions joined a group of Sixth Formers from St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, working in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi, in February. A day was spent doing the laundry and helping feed the patients at the Mother Teresa Home in Langata and we also visited the HQ of Malteser International, as well as one of their clinics, the JJJ in Kibera, and worked in three schools. We managed two days in the Nyumbani orphanage where the dancing and singing of the children at Mass were a  delight. We were welcomed by Martin Schoemburg, director of the Naitobi office of Malteser, and visited three other charities we have been supporting, the Womens' Health Group started by Dame Alice Murphy, the Foundation of Hope and the Mirror of Hope.

Knights of Malta Ball 2013

Tickets are now for sale for The 10th Knights of Malta Ball which will take place 16th March 2013 at: The Sheraton Grand Hotel 1 Festival Square Edinburgh EH3 9SR +44 (0) 131 229 9131

Ticket Prices Adult (single) £90.00 Adult (couple) £170.00 Table (10 adults) £800.00 Student (single)* £75.00 Student (couple)* £140.00 More details at http://www.knightsball.co.uk/

9th Centenary Events in Rome

All Companions should by now have been invited to join  the Order in Rome for the weekend of the 7th-9th February 2013 for the events marking the 9th centenary of the granting of the papal bull to the Order. The weekend will include an audience with the Holy Father and a reception at the English College. You should make your own travel arrangements but let Lalla know you are going so that you receive the necessary invitations.

February Companions Volunteer week in Nairobi

This year's excursion is nearly full but we can manage one or two more if they book their own flights. We have three Companions, two teachers and 11 Sixth Formers from St Aloysius' College, Glasgow in the party.

Further details at http://kibera2013.blogspot.co.uk/

The dates are 8 -18th February 2013

Order of Malta Carol Service

If anyone is in London this evening, 12/12/12.  the Order's Carol Service will be held at St James's Spanish Place at 7.30 p.m. Donations of £25 (£15 for students). Drinks and seasonal refreshments afterwards.

Newcastleton snaps

There are more snaps of the Newcastleton weekend here:
http://maltanewcastleton.blogspot.co.uk/

St Andrew's Night Ceilidh for Kibera

The  St Andrew's Night Ceilidh, in Christ the King Church Hall took place on 30th November and raised £1500 in aid of our Projects in Nairobi and the Mother Teresa Nuns' Home in Langata

10th Knights of Malta Ball

The 10th Knights of Malta Ball will take place in the Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh, on March 16th 2013 at 6.30 p.m.

Ticket information, including online purchases, can be found HERE: http://www.knightsball.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_More_Info.html

Companions' Concert

Two of our Companions, Ann Archibald, formerly principal soprano with Scottish Opera, and Liam Devlin, organ, along with Iain Muirhead, formerly principal trumpet with Scottish Opera, will give a lunchtime concert on Sunday 4th November at 1.15 p.m. in aid of the Companions Activity Weekend. Admission free - there will be a retiring collection.

Music by Scarlatti, Bach, Handel, Mozart and Hovhaness.

The venue is Pollokshields Parish Church, Glasgow.